Experience

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  TRX Homes

  • San Diego Metropolitan Area

  • Realtor

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • San Diego Metropolitan Area

    We will find you a home! Don't give up! We won't, ever!

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  Big Block Realty Inc.

  • Ocean Beach, San Diego

  • Realtor

    • Jan 2013 - Aug 2023
    • Ocean Beach, San Diego

    The beach, the sand, the great Ocean Beach community and the Point Loma Peninsula. So close to Heaven!

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  Ristra Realty

  • Realtor

    • 2007 - Dec 2012

    Introduced the Land of Enchantment to prospective buyers!

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  Elderly Relatives

  • San Diego, CA; Ashland, OR; Albuquerque, NM

  • Full-time on-the-road elderly relatives helper

    • 1999 - 2012
    • San Diego, CA; Ashland, OR; Albuquerque, NM

    This actually was the hardest job I have ever done. Taking care of 2 aunties in Ashland, OR, and starting my own caregiving company because the alternatives were awful; selling their houses, enhancing their final days. Taking care of my in-laws in San Diego, CA, by helping them sell their house, choose an assisted-living facility, remodeling their house, selling it, being their daily companion and hiring wonderful caregivers to assist them in my absence. Being the companion for my mother, helping her by moving her into our home, selling her house, donating her possessions to deserving organizations, and making the end of her life extra special for a special lady.

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  Private Practice Speech Pathology

  • Greater Denver Area

  • Speech Language Pathologist

    • 1993 - 1999
    • Greater Denver Area

    Private practice. And lots of volunteer work at Kent Denver School. I was the editor for an amazing handbook for parents that got picked up by the Children's Hospital of Denver. The organization that 7 of us Denver Area parents founded, Circle of Concern, is still ongoing. Go Parents!

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  Full-time Volunteer Mom

  • Dallas, Texas

  • Guardian, watch dog, den mother, wife, substitute teacher, arbitrator

    • 1984 - 1993
    • Dallas, Texas

    You name it, I did it. I was so thankful for Fletcher's teachers at Greenhill School. They provided the perfect elementary education a kid could have.

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  Private Practice Speech Therapy

  • St. Petersburg, Florida

  • Speech Language Pathologist

    • 1980 - 1984
    • St. Petersburg, Florida

    With a new baby, private practice in Speech and Language Therapy was the way to go. Also, lots of volunteer editing work. I was also appointed by Governor Ruben Askew to the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council and helped organize the Florida House at the International Chamber of Commerce meeting in Orlando. All this with a baby/toddler on my back/in a stroller/or walking beside me. Whew!

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  Century 21 Port Charlotte

  • Port Charlotte, FL

  • Real Estate Sales

    • 1978 - 1980
    • Port Charlotte, FL

    I really learned my sales chops here! Lots of retirees who wanted the VERY BEST DEAL for the least amount of money. Hey, who could fault that! It was totally different than speech therapy, but then again, challenge is my middle name (not really, it's Louise).

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  University of Miami; Mailman Center for Child Development

  • Miami, Florida

  • Adjunct Professor

    • 1974 - 1978
    • Miami, Florida

    I was assistant co-director of the Debbie School. We had classrooms with a mix of normal and handicapped children, and an intensive home support program. The program was research-based and co-operated with the UM Medical School to provide training for medical students in the areas of parent training and developmental delays. We also had a graduate student training program in severe development disablilities. Wow! It was amazing! and fueled by a Cuban coffee buzz. We had parents who did not speak English or were from 28 different cultures. It was quite a challenge, but I believe the kids truly benefitted from the Debbie School.

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  Peabody College, now the educational college of Vanderbilt University

  • Nashville, TN

  • Speech Pathologist & Language Specialist

    • 1972 - 1974
    • Nashville, TN

    Worked with preschoolers in a research setting. It was great. My bosses, Diane & Bill Bricker, were always questioning, always searching for ways to help kids with speech and language handicaps.

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  Boston Children's Hospital

  • Boston

  • Graduate Student Intern, Emerson College

    • 1970 - 1972
    • Boston

    While getting my Master's Degree in Speech Pathology from Emerson College (was sick of chemicals), I worked at BCH in the Speech Therapy Outpatient Department with a Kennedy Foundation Scholarship. Fabulous instructors and resources. I wish the rest of the country had these opportunities. (Got locked into the Harvard Medical School Library overnight, had lots to read - pre-cell phone era!)

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  Naval Air Rework Facility

  • Norfolk, Virginia Area

  • Chemist

    • 1968 - 1970
    • Norfolk, Virginia Area

    Analyzing plating solutions for jets in rehab. So many chemicals, so little fresh air.